Bird Tree of Life

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Bird Tree of Life

This box includes ten bird skulls: the Bronze-Winged Mannikin, Zebra Finch, Caribbean Flamingo, Blue Jay, American Crow, Burrowing Owl, Peregrine Falcon, Northern Cardinal, Duck, and Pileated Woodpecker. The variation in their skull sizes and beaks reveals their amazing range of adaptation to different food sources and environments. Learn about the process of natural selection and create an evolutionary bird tree of life to show how the specimens in the box are related.Note: this box dovetails well with the Systems Biology Lesson "The Case of Darwin's Finches."